BlackBerry Passport unveiled, scheduled for launch in September
The so called "most innovative" BlackBerry till date
which has also been the most-talked about BlackBerry smartphone
recently, was finally revealed by CEO John Chen.
During BlackBerry's
quarterly earnings report, CEO John Chen finally unveiled the company's
next "big" smartphone, the BlackBerry Passport. The previous rumors that
we had earlier about a phone codenamed "Windermere," actually is,
Passport.
Apart from Passport, BlackBerry also
unveiled the BlackBerry Classic which has been known as BlackBerry Q20
till now. The smartphone is also expected to run BlackBerry 10.3.1 OS
which will also be available to all the current BlackBerry 10
smartphones. These smartphones were expected to be launched alongside
BlackBerry Z3 which is expected to launch in India soon
.
BlackBerry has gone with its
conventional physical QWERTY keypads on both the phones even though
users have been demanding an on-screen keyboard. Passport is expected to
be the flagship of the company for this year and looking at the
pictures, it actually does look like a passport.
An important feature to point out here
is that the keypad on BlackBerry Passport lacks punctuation and numeric
keys. But according to PhoneArena, users will be able to swipe over the
keys for additional functions. One more interesting thing to note about
the Passport is the position of the spacebar - which has been placed
between the "V" and the "B" keys of the keyboard.
Classic on the hand, will have the "classic" BlackBerry keyboard with all the functions and buttons.
Now coming to the main attraction of
BlackBerry Passport. The smartphone is quite oddly shaped and the
company expects it to change things around. The Passport has a 4.5-inch
display with a 1440x1440 resolution which makes it a square and quite
unlike the everyday rectangular screens that we see on almost every
smartphone. But still, BlackBerry isn't new to the square screens on its
smartphones - BlackBerry Q10 came with a square shaped display.
What makes the Passport stand out even
more is the display size - 4.5" which is quite big for a squarish
display. This makes the smartphone stand quite wide at 3.18-inches which
makes it even broader than Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 (2.79-inches).
BlackBerry has also entered a deal with
Amazon recently through which Passport users will get access to Android
apps sold on Amazon App Store. But one thing that remains a secret is
the way through which BlackBerry will customize these apps to run on a
square screen with a 1:1 aspect ratio. Guess we will have to wait till
September to see all the Android apps in action on the screen of
Passport.
Even though BlackBerry hasn't confirmed
or released an official specs-preview, rumors point that the BlackBerry
Passport will run a quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor with Adreno 330
GPU and 3GB of RAM. The smartphone is expected to have a 3450mAh
battery.
BlackBerry has said that Passport will
be launched at a UK event in September. CEO John Chen also announced
that BBM for Windows Phone will be launched in July.Source: BlackBerry
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave your views about the review and the product